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[B]Introduction
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Hello fellow-musicians on facepunch!
There's a little project I've been working on, and I think that I have collected enough content to start sharing it.
The idea here is that there are a whole lot of tutorials online about music production with digital workstations,
so much so, that it can be hard to find your way around.
This is a problem I've found myself, as there are so many resources, good and bad, new and horribly outdated, that I was looking for a place where people combine all the best tutorials out there so you can easily find exactly what you need.
Another problem I found, especially as a beginning producer, is that it's hard to find the true basics anyone might need to start producing music.
After a bit of a search, I couldn't really find a main database that really collected all these tutorials for ALL DAWs,
so I started one myself.
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the Format
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After looking around for the best way to collect all of these (considered a wiki-style page, or even a whole website) I came down to using
Google+.
Now I've seen a lot of negative responses to Google's own social media platform, but I found it a great way to separate the different resources into the place I think they belong.
I made a subsection for all the current big DAWs, like FL-Studio, Ableton, Reason, ect.
Next to this I have a subsection for terminology, basic techniques, and general information.
Terminology is probably best suited for the newer producers amongst us, trying to explain what an oscillator, filter, and LFO does, and how you could use them.
General information is more about finding resources to up your productivity, and maybe change the way you think about producing (or at least spark your mind to find new ways to do your work).
Basic Techniques is a subsection created to really explain some basic techniques, like how one would make a dubstep wobble, or a smooth pad.
[B]Where I need your help
[/B]Now I have found a whole lot of resources about Reason, currently Propellerheads flagship DAW.
I've also tried to find a few basic resources and tutorials about the other DAWs catagorized on the page, but the problem arises that I don't actually USE these programs (or not a whole lot, anyway). So I can't really tell if it's a good workflow that these people use.
Now if you're an Ableton user, for example, surely you have some resources that you might want to share with the community.
This way the collective fills up, and more people get more use out of it.
[B]What's in it for you?[/B]
A growing pool of information, catagorized easily so you can quickly find the information you might be looking for.
I feel that as a producer we should all be out to help eachother gain more knowledge, as more knowledge means more to work with, and in the end better productions!
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Blog
[/B]Next to all this i've started a small blog to kickstart the collective with basic information.
Check out my terminology to find my "Basic Synthesizer Terminology", here I explain the basics of how a synthesizer (usually) work.
I'm not a professor in music, and I might have made some mistakes (like the cutoff bend on the filters, I later realized) but I made the tutorial primarily to make people easily understand what the knobs do to your sound, I don't really go into the nitty-gritty-science behind the filters.
I'm gonna expand my blog, something I really want to do is make a list of sound "types".
Think: lead, pad, bassline, but also going deeper, like a reese bass, what makes a wobble, what's in a trap-bass, ect.
I'd love to hear suggestions on what kinds of sounds I could explain.
I think this might be handy, as looking for tutorials is only possible if you know what kind of sound you're trying to make.
[B]SO
[/B]I'd love to hear some critisism on how to improve the collective, and of course it'd be even better if you would join my cause!
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TL;DR
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The DAW Producers Collective is an attempt to make a database of the best tutorials, about the biggest DAW's.
Next to this I want to make an easy to understand blog for beginner producers, which will help them in their search for the sounds they want to make.
Thanks for reading, if you missed the link at the top, here is another:
[URL]https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/114937346729583729683[/URL]
Computer music magazine have a lot of great videos on their youtube [URL]http://www.youtube.com/user/ComputerMusicMag/videos[/URL] . Especially the masterclass videos are quite interesting (which they don't have that many of on the yt channel, the magazine itself holds the most of them. (like Ital Tek, Bar9, and a whole lot of other big names that I can't remember right now))
Don't have time to look through them for the best ones tho so I can't help you any more than that
Thanks, i'll be sure to add some of them to the community.
I was sure I actually had some of their stuff already, apparently not.
This is actually a cool idea. I love learning new things about FL studio because there always seems to be more than one method of doing something - it all feels so freeform.
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